Tumbiscatio (Mexico) (AFP) - During his months on the run, Mexican drug baron Servando Gomez fled on donkeys and hid in a bat-filled cave -- a far cry from his days of showing off in videos and flashing cash in his fiefdom.

GILZE-RIJEN AIRBASE (Netherlands) (AFP) - The first of around 500 relatives of those killed in the shooting down of Malaysia Airlines flight MH17 over Ukraine visited the wreckage at a Dutch airbase on Tuesday, investigators said.

Geneva (AFP) - North Korea's foreign minister warned Tuesday Pyongyang had the power to conduct a "pre-emptive strike" on the United States, following joint US-South Korea military drills earlier this week.

Washington (AFP) - America's most prominent former military commander, David Petraeus, will plead guilty to illegally providing classified secrets to his mistress, in a dramatic fall from grace for a general once lauded as a war hero.

Moscow (AFP) - A Ukrainian airforce pilot who has been on hunger strike in a Russian jail for 81 days might be transferred to a civilian hospital if her health deteriorates, the prison service said Tuesday.